Job 35

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Elihu continued his speech. He said:	1 After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:
2 Do you think you can prove yourself upright and establish your uprightness before God	2 Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”
3 by daring to say to him, 'What does it matter to you, or how does it benefit me, whether I have sinnedor not?'	3 For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”
4 Very well, I shal tel you and your friends as wel .	4 And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
5 Take a look at the skies and see, observe how high the clouds are above you.	5 Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
6 If you sin, how can you affect him? If you heap up crimes, what effect has it on him?	6 If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
7 If you are upright, what do you give him, what benefit does he receive at your hands?	7 Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only your fel ows, your uprightness, other human beings.	8 Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.
9 They too groan under the weight of oppression, they cry for help under the tyranny of the mighty,	9 Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.
10 but none of them thinks of saying, 'Where is God, my Maker, who makes glad songs ring out at night,	10 Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,
11 who has made us more intel igent than wild animals wiser than birds in the sky?'	11 who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”
12 Cry they may, but get no answer, to be spared from the arrogance of the wicked.	12 There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Of course God does not listen to trivialities, Shaddai pays no attention to them.	13 Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.
14 And how much less when you say, 'I cannot see him, my case is open and I am waiting for him.'	14 And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.
15 Or, 'His anger never punishes, he does not seem aware of human rebel ion.'	15 For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.
16 Hence, when Job speaks, he talks nonsense, ignorantly babbling on and on.	16 Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.